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Brendan Hughes (June 1948 – 16 February 2008), also known as "The Dark", and "Darkie" was a leading Irish republican and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger strike.
Brendan Hughes’ gritty memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the IRA in the early 1970s. Hughes reveals how a secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin’s Mountjoy Jail and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation’s armed resistance to British rule.
17 de feb. de 2008 · El ex comandante del Ejército Republicano Irlandés (IRA) Brendan Hughes, que encabezó la primera huelga de hambre de los presos republicanos en 1980 y al que después le siguió Bobby...
2 de mar. de 2008 · Más de 2.000 personas se concentraban el lunes de la pasada semana por las calles del oeste de Belfast, bastión católico, al paso de la comitiva fúnebre de Brendan Hughes, ex comandante del IRA y...
Brendan Hughes (Belfast, juny o 16 d'octubre de 1948 - 16 de febrer de 2008), també conegut com "The Dark" o "Darkie", va ser un líder republicà irlandès i officer commanding (OC) de la Brigada de Belfast de l'Exèrcit Republicà Irlandès Provisional (IRA o PIRA).
1 de may. de 2014 · Aquí nos gustaría mostrarte una descripción, pero el sitio web que estás mirando no lo permite.
15 de feb. de 2024 · One of its most notable Republican critics was Brendan Hughes, the storied former leader of the Provisional IRA’s Belfast Brigade, who sardonically summed it up in three words: ‘Got fuck all’.
